Engl. 306: Business Writing, Summer 2009 Group Project Assignment 07/10/2009 Overview/Rationale
In view of the fact that teamwork skills are of paramount importance in the workplace today, this project assignment is designed to help you practice collaborative work in a business-like setting. It is also meant to give you the opportunity to implement ideas and skills of business communication that you read and practice throughout the term, including project management and teamwork skills. Project Description
Suppose that you and your group work for a travel agency which specializes in international travel packages for college students. At this time, you are working with two or three other travel and tourism specialists in your unit on a 2 week-long, 3 country tour for Spring Break 2010, mainly targeting UofL undergraduates as your potential customers. Assume that your instructor is the travel agency’s business manager to whom your team should first submit a 5-7 page long project proposal in the process of getting his approval before you go on to sell the travel package to your potential customers. Parts of the Project
WORK
Description
due
credit
Group’s Project Proposal
5-7 pages
on the day your group presents the project in class
5 points
Quality of Collaboration and Materials
(rubric given later)
graded on dates indicated on class schedule on Bb
5 points
Group’s Presentation of Project in Class
20 minute class presentation
on the day your group presents the project in class
10 points
PARTS OF THE PROJECT 1. Group Proposal
Your group must present a business proposal that includes details—introduction, itinerary, budget, project management, how you will promote, etc—to the instructor. The proposal is what you write to inform and convince your boss about the viability of the project. It is a document that is independent from the slides and other media that you create for the presentation in class at the end of the term. 2. Group Presentation
Separate from the in-house proposal written to be read by the manager, the group presentation is a promotional exhibition that your group will make before the class (your potential customers). Your group will collaboratively develop and deliver the project by using appropriate media (PowerPoint slide, audio, video, web site, real objects, etc), and drawing whatever information is relevant to your “customers” from the proposal you submitted to your “manager.” 3. Materials for Group Presentation and Collaborative Process Materials The quantity and quality of process materials (including task schedule, team charter, meeting agenda and minutes, and update messages, which you must post on/via your group space—wiki, blog, file exchange, discussion forum, chat, and via email) and the quality and effectiveness of materials you develop for group presentation will be given 5 grade points, so your group should collaborate and work hard on this area of the project as well. All process materials must demonstrate effective collaboration; presentation materials must also show that your group coordinated well for doing research, presenting information with both substance and quality, and making use of everyone’s creative and imaginative contribution in order to make the package saleable to customers. All materials must be posted in appropriate places on Bb, as instructed in class.
Group Project Assignment
07/10/2009
Overview/Rationale
In view of the fact that teamwork skills are of paramount importance in the workplace today, this project assignment is designed to help you practice collaborative work in a business-like setting. It is also meant to give you the opportunity to implement ideas and skills of business communication that you read and practice throughout the term, including project management and teamwork skills.
Project Description
Suppose that you and your group work for a travel agency which specializes in international travel packages for college students. At this time, you are working with two or three other travel and tourism specialists in your unit on a 2 week-long, 3 country tour for Spring Break 2010, mainly targeting UofL undergraduates as your potential customers. Assume that your instructor is the travel agency’s business manager to whom your team should first submit a 5-7 page long project proposal in the process of getting his approval before you go on to sell the travel package to your potential customers.
Parts of the Project
1. Group Proposal
Your group must present a business proposal that includes details—introduction, itinerary, budget, project management, how you will promote, etc—to the instructor. The proposal is what you write to inform and convince your boss about the viability of the project. It is a document that is independent from the slides and other media that you create for the presentation in class at the end of the term.
2. Group Presentation
Separate from the in-house proposal written to be read by the manager, the group presentation is a promotional exhibition that your group will make before the class (your potential customers). Your group will collaboratively develop and deliver the project by using appropriate media (PowerPoint slide, audio, video, web site, real objects, etc), and drawing whatever information is relevant to your “customers” from the proposal you submitted to your “manager.”
3. Materials for Group Presentation and Collaborative Process Materials
The quantity and quality of process materials (including task schedule, team charter, meeting agenda and minutes, and update messages, which you must post on/via your group space—wiki, blog, file exchange, discussion forum, chat, and via email) and the quality and effectiveness of materials you develop for group presentation will be given 5 grade points, so your group should collaborate and work hard on this area of the project as well. All process materials must demonstrate effective collaboration; presentation materials must also show that your group coordinated well for doing research, presenting information with both substance and quality, and making use of everyone’s creative and imaginative contribution in order to make the package saleable to customers. All materials must be posted in appropriate places on Bb, as instructed in class.